Silly Quotes - Page 39

• So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Technology, College

  "The Future of Computing Power (Fast, Cheap, and Invisible)" by Michio Kaku, bigthink.com.

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• Part of me really wants to believe that hope is entirely available to all of us. We don't have to embrace it. It would be sentimental and silly to say that we all need it, but it is absolutely available to all of us.

  Colum McCann

  Believe, Needs, Want

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• After I had my son I looked everywhere for a book that might serve as some kind of mirror. I bought so many silly books. Now I see what the problem was: I wanted a book about time-about mortality. I can't think of a writer who is at once so experimentally daring and so rigorously uncompromising as Sarah Manguso. Ongoingness is an incredibly elegant, wise book, and I loved it.

  Miranda July

  Wise, Book, Son

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• When you speak up about any sense of unfairness or injustice, you're told that you're overreacting, you're too angry, too silly-shut up already. It takes a tremendous amount of fortitude to be able to live in this world as a woman, let alone a woman who wants things to change.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Change, Strong Women, Feminist

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• Jay Wexler is my kind of writer--a weird one, and a wry one, and one who isnt afraid to act silly in a sort of bait-and-switch that, to the readers surprise, moves him as much as it makes him laugh. Like all the best comedians, Wexler is clearly nursing a heart that the world broke a long time ago. Ed Tuttle is a book that cant decide what it wants to be when it grows up, but as with most cases of arrested development, theres something very serious going on behind all the antics. Plus, there are pictures.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Growing Up, Moving, Book

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• I don't pick my roles by genre; that's kind of silly.

  Michael Shannon

  Roles, Kind, Genre

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• I have family members who live in Africa. Because of the family that lives there, I know what is happening in these countries, and it seems so silly to me that diseases like malaria are so prevalent when they are entirely preventable. Yet children are still dying every 35 seconds.

  Katharine McPhee

  Country, Children, Dying

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• I grew up in an apolitical household. I never left the country. When I became an adult, I started traveling and became interested in politics, and I probably talked about things in a silly, ignorant way.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Country, Ignorant, Adults

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• I realize I have a lot of amazing opportunities, but I don't know how you can play a human being going through real human experiences without being able to walk down the street. If you can't live a real life, how do you play a real person? It always confuses me when actors work back-to-back-to-back with no break. If you live your life on a film set, how the hell can you relate to real people? You don't know what its like to not have people fussing over you all day, and that's not life - that's silly movies. I will always want to take breaks and I wouldn't be OK with losing that.

  Emma Stone

  Real, Opportunity, Play

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don’t know if I’d do an action movie because I don’t know if I could keep a straight face honestly, I just think it’s so silly. Like I love watching them but I can’t imagine me doing one. Actually, you know what I’ve done, just for fun because I didn’t think there was any way that I could be in a superhero movie, so I’ve done a scene in the new “Thor” movie, just for that. I just do like one scene, which was quite fun.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Fun, Thinking, Superhero

  "Interview: Chris O’Dowd on Shooting ‘The Sapphires’ in Vietnam and Taking a Role in ‘Thor 2’ for Fun". Interview with Mark Lukenbill, www.indiewire.com. March 19, 2013.

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• When I was just a kid, growing up in Brooklyn, I was constantly making home videos with my family – real silly high-concept productions like, 'Attack of the Killer Handkerchief.' I guess I knew even then that I wanted to be an actress.

  Lana Parrilla

  Growing Up, Real, Home

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• It gets to be 2 a.m., and they hand you a bottle of whipped cream and some syrup and things start getting silly.

  Susan Sarandon

  Hands, Syrup, Bottles

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• For an actor to be working at all is a kind of miracle, because most actors aren't. So it's just silly for a working actor to say, 'Oh, I don't care if anybody knows I'm gay' especially if you're a leading man. Personally, I wouldn't advise a gay leading man-type actor to come out.

  Richard Chamberlain

  Gay, Men, Miracle

  "Gay actors say coming out affects roles they get" by Alex Needham, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2012.

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• I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.

  Keith Richards

  Way, Laboratory

  "In quotes: Keith Richards", news.bbc.co.uk. April 4, 2007.

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• I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money.

  Bam Margera

  Mtv, Giving, Contests

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• Very few people run around and get amnesia and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly of people have strokes and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly things we do on soaps.

  Erika Slezak

  Running, People, Soap

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• A lot of the girls my age were impressed by silly stuff like money and fame. I wanted to be able to have intellectual and spiritual conversations with someone who was on the same page as me.

  Nick Cannon

  Girl, Spiritual, Intellectual

  "Nick Cannon" by Corrie Pikul, www.elle.com. September 9, 2009.

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• I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy' and 'Borat,' without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture. It's one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America. It's one thing to break stuff and damage people's possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that's dangerous comedy.

  Adam McKay

  Dumb, Doubt, Culture

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• Atheists think the devil is just a silly as God is.

  Hemant Mehta

  Atheist, Thinking, Religion

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• Looking silly can be ver powerful. People who are committing and taking risks become the king and queen of my prom. People are their most beautiful when they are laughing, crying, dancing, playing, telling the truth, and being chased in a fun way.

  Amy Poehler

  Beautiful, Kings, Queens

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• Don't let your silly dreams fall in between the crack of the bed and the wall.

  Jim James

  Dream, Wall, Fall

  "My Morning Jacket" by Carrie O'Grady, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2003.

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• Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs

  Paul McCartney

  Song, People, World

  Song: Silly Love Songs

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• The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country. A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote. If children were forced to learn about the Constitution, about how government works, about how this nation came into being, about taxes and about how government forever threatens the cause of liberty perhaps we wouldn't see so many foolish ideas coming out of the mouths of silly old men.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Country, Children, Men

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• Silly ideas, worth the admission price in smiles, but they're true. Is high-energy physics interesting because it's true or because it's crazy?

  Richard Bach

  Crazy, Ideas, Interesting

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• I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in Morning Glory with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.

  Rachel McAdams

  Funny, Art, Morning

  "Rachel McAdams: OK, We Love This Girl!". Interview with Alexandra Marshall, www.glamour.com. January 2, 2012.

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